Science at its heart is nothing more than a search for truth. It’s the pursuit of understanding. It’s the gathering of precise and accurate information that describes the universe we live in. Science should be ideologically and politically independent and pure.

Science is also a human endeavor. No other species seeks understanding like we do. And God, however you understand him, has no use for it; He IS science.

Therefore, since science is human, science is corruptible. And science is corrupt.

1,000 emails and more than 3,000 other documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom publicly revealed by a hacker, or allegedly an inside whistleblower, are rekindling the flame to the global warming debate just weeks before the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference where the United States will propose an emissions reduction target. A sample of what the emails exposed, which date back 13 years, includes:

“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

And:

“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”

And:

“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Some have argued the quotes have been taken out of context while others say the context is clear as day. Other information was erased completely to prevent it from being obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. And others believe “that this is not a scandal so much as a window on real scientists working on a politicized issue.”

This is the greatest scandal in human history. Countries have signed treaties based on data that has been altered and while other data has been "hidden." The central scientists can’t explain why there hasn’t been warming, and think it’s a "travesty." They seek to exclude information from UN reports on climate change, rather than simply present the truth.

We’re being asked to use expensive, more dangerous light bulbs we use because of this. We’re asked to drive certain cars because of this. We’re asked to eliminate meat from our diets because of this. We’re asked to give up our nation’s sovereignty because of this. We’re asked to pay more for energy because of this. Our auto industry was driven into collapse partly because of government hysteria based on outright lies about climate change. General Electric has based its business model on solar panels and windmills. The corruption of science has directly affected our lives, from the global level, all the way down to the stuff we keep in our own homes.

The question, now that the skepticism many of us have had about the climate change scam has been confirmed, is why? Control, of course. And money.

These scientists have been funded by GOVERNMENT GRANTS. Therefore, it’s theoretically, and now apparently actually was, in the scientists’ best interest to find and deliver data that supported the global government agenda. And what’s the government’s agenda? Central control, fascism, restrictions on freedom of property, freedom of movement, freedom of association. In all of human history, the agenda of any government is incompatible with individual liberty. Therefore, government-funded science is a tool of tyranny.

Al Gore has become an incredibly wealthy man based on this scam. He’s been the manufactured crisis’s chief salesman, and has profited quite nicely. Yet he’s seen as some kind of crusading hero rather than simply a cynical televangelist. His scientific mentors have been discredited over and over again for decades, but he still cites them. If there’s any justice, his career should be over.

The president’s science czar advocates forced abortions and mass sterilization in response to global catastrophes that he thought were going to come about due to human-caused climate change. If there’s any justice, he’ll be removed from office.

This is a revolutionary time. Everything we’re told is based on lies. Central governments are losing their moral authority to lead. Nation-states all over the world are being unveiled as corrupt, inhumane, lying, oppressive, and paranoid. They have their greasy tentacles in the media, science, entertainment, education, and increasingly, churches. And it’s been going on for decades.

Anything you thought was true 5, 10, 20, 50 maybe even 100 years ago, isn’t. Anybody who still can’t see simply has his eyes shut.

The greatest (worst?) part of this failure of science is that basic truth has become a casualty. They’ve brought about a condition where honest discovery must be met with extreme skepticism. They’ve brought about a situation where the smartest among us can’t be trusted, which could allow a new age of superstition and fear to finally destroy our age of enlightenment. Their lack of a solid moral compass has undermined their influence. And because of that, we’re one step closer to the edge of a new dark age. Too much of our faith was placed in the hands of prideful, weak, corrupt, ridiculous men. Our founders warned us. God warned us. And yet, here we are.

Our Secretary of Energy (a position that shouldn’t even exist) has some thoughts about Americans.

Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”

We’re not acting how the fascist progressives want us to act. Yay us!

The requisite "clarification" came a few minutes later:

Energy Department spokesman Dan Leistikow added: “Secretary Chu was not comparing the public to teenagers. He was saying that we need to educate teenagers about ways to save energy."

Sigh. Why can’t anybody in the administration get it right the first time? This Chu jackass "accidentally" called us immature misbehavers, but he really meant that the teenagers were the ones acting like teenagers. Or something.

Anyway, as long as they keep lying to us, condescending patronization is probably just a minor, expected offense in the big scheme of things.

I’m not in the market for a new car this week, but unfortunately my taxes are subsidizing everybody else’s Cash for Clunkers purchases. You’re welcome.

I’m not in the market for a used car, either. Which is fortunate because every car traded in to the Cash for Clunkers program has to be destroyed, regardless of its condition. So the government is in the process of destroying the used car market in order to subsidize the new car market.

By promising up to $4500 in welfare for anybody who trades in their clunker, the government effectively makes the down payment for people. Low-income folks who would normally buy a used car when they need one are being encouraged to buy more car than they can afford. Does this sound familiar? It should. It’s the subprime auto industry.

What happens when people figure out that they can’t make the payment on their government-subsidized Prius? I guess it gets repossessed. Their credit is ruined, their car gets taken away, and there aren’t many cheap used cars left in the market because they’ve all been crushed.

Meanwhile, the resale values of the cars people already own or are making the payments on take a nosedive because of the repossessed cars that will flood the market in six months. Immediate, accelerated destruction of wealth. Yay. Furthermore, auto manufacturers have reduced their output this year. Suddenly you have a few million people with “free” money chasing after a limited number of cars. Inflationary pressure? You betcha!

The evidence points to the idea that people have been putting off their car purchases so that they could participate in this program. Similarly, they’re buying these new cars earlier than they normally would in order to partake in this deal. So we’re compressing the sales for the last four months and the next couple of years into a couple of weeks right now. After the Clunkers program ends, car sales are going to drop back down to their normal market rate, which has been significantly low due to the shitty economy. The net benefit to the economy and the industry is zero, only we’ll have spent a couple billion dollars of money the government didn’t have, and there will be a few million used cars destroyed. Woo!

All this is done in the name of saving the planet from the evil internal combustion engine, right? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and all that. Well, the Cash for Clunkers program increases the use of natural resources by subsidizing the energy-intensive process of manufacturing cars. We’re not going to be reusing the cars that were traded in. The government is destroying perfectly good assets that are in working condition in order to force you to buy the cars they’ve decided you need to buy. Yes, the materials will be recycled, but whatever they’re used for in the future will have to be manufactured, which requires more energy, fossil fuels, transportation, yada yada yada. In other words, there’s probably not a big net change in the amount of CO2 produced because of this debacle.

It’s all a waste, unless you happen to need a new car right now. In which case, you’re welcome. Enjoy the new cars I just helped you buy, assholes.

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/13/global-leaders-agree-on-temperature-cap/

Leaders of eight industrialized nations met last week in Italy to discuss a number of critical issues, including climate change, and in what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a “historic agreement,” the G8 agreed that “average global temperatures shouldn’t increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius, in a significant new acknowledgment in the fight against global warming.”

There are two completely awesome things here!

First, a group of politicians has decided that the current average global temperature is the ideal global temperature, based on no particular methodology.

Second, a group of politicians has declared that we can control the earth’s temperature! We can control the energy output of the sun! We can control El Nino! We can stop the sea levels from rising and we can save the non-endangered polar bears!

And these magic powers are so simple to acquire and wield, we should have thought of it sooner.  All we have to do is give up our national sovereignty, shred the constitution, permit unelected leftist elites to “manage” every aspect of our lives, and sit around in the dark.

It’s so easy I could puke!

Hot on the heels of Prince Charles’s horsecrap, calling for the end of capitalism, consumerism and individual liberty, we have the Grand Wizard declaring Cap & Trade a first step toward “global governance.”

Here’s the thing. Americans are right to be skeptical about talk like this.  We have a history that acknowledges individual liberties, freedom and national sovereignty. Treaties, once signed and confirmed, become the law of the land, and it’s yet another backdoor for socialism to sneak in and restrict our rights to property, mobility and commerce. Our Democrat overlords have made it very clear that socialism is the goal, freedom be damned.

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”

Any time we enter into an agreement that involves “global governance” we risk giving up some of our sovereignty, which means that as a nation we give up some of our ability to self-govern. The countries we enter into these agreements with don’t necessarily see things through the lens of freedom, because they may not have constitutions that guarantee rights or limit government’s influence. The only people who care about freedom in these kinds of negotiations are American citizens. It’s too important to leave the decision-making up to dipshits like Al Gore and the US Senate.

To clarify what the goal of all this is, here’s another little gem from the article that illustrates the dangers involved here. Remember, Al Gore is the guy who is trying to get stuff done, and therefore has to couch his ideas in less threatening terms. The activists and true believers, on the other hand, get to say what’s really on their minds:

The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.

"A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.

Global governance, to the environmental movement, is an opportunity to “spread the wealth around” on a global scale. It’s not about clean air or clean water or saving the planet. It’s about control, control, control. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Communism didn’t die with the Soviet Union. It just found a new home in the environmental movement.